{"id":"tengboche-monastery","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/tengboche-monastery","language":"en","name":"Tengboche Monastery","name_en":"Tengboche Monastery","name_ne":null,"description":"Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Nepal","headline":"Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Tengboche Monastery (or Thyangboche Monastery), also known as Dawa Choling Gompa, in the Tengboche village in Khumjung in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Sherpa community. Situated at 3,867 metres (12,687 ft), the monastery is the largest gompa in the Khumbu region of Nepal. It was built in 1916 by Lama Gulu with strong links to its mother monastery known as the Rongbuk Monastery in Tibet. In 1934, it was destroyed by an earthquake and was subsequently rebuilt. In 1989, it was destroyed for a second time by a fire and then rebuilt with the help of volunteers and international assistance.","summary_more":["Tengboche monastery is amidst the Sagarmatha National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site of \"outstanding universal value”), draped with a panoramic view of the Himalayan Mountains, including the well-known peaks of Tawache, Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, Ama Dablam, and Thamserku.","Tengboche is the terminus site of the \"Sacred Sites Trail Project\" of the Sagarmatha National Park that attracts large number of tourists for trekking and mountaineering. It is a circular trail that covers 10 monasteries in a clockwise direction terminating in the Tengboche Monastery."],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"Gompa","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1559394"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7699760#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Khumbu Pasanglhamu (rural municipality of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q32572193","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/khumbu-pasanglhamu-rural-municipality"},{"text":"Solukhumbu District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28363","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/solukhumbu-district"},{"text":"Koshi Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104008","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/koshi-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7699760#P131"}},{"key":"established","label":"Established","values":[{"text":"1916","date":"1916"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7699760#P571"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"tengboche.org","url":"http://www.tengboche.org/"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7699760#P856"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengboche_Monastery","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7699760","http://www.tengboche.org/"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Tengboche Monastery located?","a":"Tengboche Monastery is located in Khumbu Pasanglhamu, Solukhumbu District, Koshi Province, Nepal."}],"related":[{"name":"Mount Everest","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mount-everest"},{"name":"Himalayas","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/himalayas"},{"name":"Kathmandu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"},{"name":"Kangchenjunga","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kangchenjunga"},{"name":"Annapurna (mountain range)","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/annapurna-mountain-range"},{"name":"Dhaulagiri","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dhaulagiri"},{"name":"Makalu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/makalu"},{"name":"Lhotse","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lhotse"},{"name":"Cho Oyu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/cho-oyu"},{"name":"Manaslu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/manaslu"},{"name":"Pokhara","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/pokhara"},{"name":"Lumbini","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lumbini"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[{"name":"Tengboche","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/tengboche","km":0.0},{"name":"Imja Khola","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/imja-khola","km":1.9},{"name":"Pangboche","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/pangboche","km":3.4},{"name":"Khumjung","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/khumjung","km":4.8},{"name":"Mount Khumbila","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mount-khumbila","km":5.5},{"name":"Thamserku","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/thamserku","km":5.6}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Front_view_of_the_iconic_Tengboche_Monastery_in_Nepal%2C_on_the_route_of_Everest_Base_camp_trek%2C_photographed_on_November_27%2C_2023.jpg/960px-Front_view_of_the_iconic_Tengboche_Monastery_in_Nepal%2C_on_the_route_of_Everest_Base_camp_trek%2C_photographed_on_November_27%2C_2023.jpg","width":640,"height":781,"license":"CC0","credit":"Billjones94","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front_view_of_the_iconic_Tengboche_Monastery_in_Nepal,_on_the_route_of_Everest_Base_camp_trek,_photographed_on_November_27,_2023.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Tengboche Monastery","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengboche_Monastery","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q7699760","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7699760","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Front view of the iconic Tengboche Monastery in Nepal, on the route of Everest Base camp trek, photographed on November 27, 2023.jpg by Billjones94 (CC0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Front_view_of_the_iconic_Tengboche_Monastery_in_Nepal,_on_the_route_of_Everest_Base_camp_trek,_photographed_on_November_27,_2023.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Tengboche Monastery, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Front view of the iconic Tengboche Monastery in Nepal, on the route of Everest Base camp trek, photographed on November 27, 2023.jpg — Billjones94, CC0.","cite":"\"Tengboche Monastery\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/tengboche-monastery. Retrieved 3 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T10:00:46Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/tengboche-monastery","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/tengboche-monastery","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/tengboche-monastery?lang=ne"}}